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TIL In 2005 a cardboard box was added to the US National Toy Hall of Fame : "Inside a big cardboard box, a child is transported to a world of his or her own, one where anything is possible."

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VMKOk TIL after suffering a massive heart attack and thought to be on his death bed, an inmate in Nashville confessed to a decade-old murder as way to clear his conscious before he died. Instead, he made a full recovery. He was then indicted for murder, and later convicted
4kpW6 TIL Albrecht Unsöld studied the star Tau Scorpii and discovered its surface temperature of 32,730 K, creating the first detailed analysis of a star other than the Sun. During the Nazi period, Unsöld stayed in Germany and was drafted as a meteorologist
EYQ7 TIL that Chevy Chase avoided the draft by falsely convincing the draft board that he had homosexual tendencies.
EMjx TIL Jim Hanks, Tom Hanks’ brother, does Woody’s voice in video games and merchandise
5ZO9 TIL that November 5th 1999 was “Burn All GIFs” Day, when the internet banded together to put an end to the GIF once and for all. It didn’t work.